Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial
— MARAJAOfficial title:
Microbiota Analysis to Predict Outcomes of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated With JAK-inhibitor
Personalized medicine in which each patient would receive the ideal personalized treatment and regimen, holds great promise to improve patient's care. However, previous studies failed to establish validated predictors of response to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). JAK inhibitors is a new class of DMARDs with great efficacy that might be even superior to anti-TNF drugs. As there are chemicals, their production cost is much cheaper than biological therapies and they will probably be central in patient's care in the coming years. Three are currently available: upadacitinib (UPA) tofacitinib and baricitinib. Our study will focus on UPA. Clinical outcomes mainly depend on i) factors influencing drug metabolism & concentrations and ii) adequacy between drug target and the inflammation pathways involved in the patient's disease. Humans carry in their gut trillions of germs, which are now known to be key players in health and disease. Those germs possess many enzymes and strongly modulate human enzymes expression. Gut-microbiota can, indeed, directly metabolize oral drugs and control the expression of the cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4), the main enzyme metabolizing TOFA. We showed, in a preliminary mouse experiment, that modifying gut-microbiota composition changes JAKi effects on signaling pathways. We thus believe that models including gut-microbiota composition together with markers of immune activation will predict clinical outcomes in RA patients treated with UPA. Main and secondary objectives: To build predictive models for clinical outcomes (efficacy and safety) of RA patients treated with UPA based on microbiota analysis and markers f immune activation. Methodolgy: This multicentric longitudinal prospective study will include 60 patients with RA and inadequate response to methotrexate. The clinical outcomes studied will be EULAR non-response at 3 months as defined by the European league against rheumatism EULAR (primary outcome), achievement of low-disease activity at 6 months or incident adverse events (secondary outcomes). Gut microbiota will be assessed at baseline and M3 from thawed fecal samples. DNA will be purified using QIAamp DNA stool mini kit (Qiagen) and qualify using Qubit and TapeStation 4200 (Agilent). Library will be prepared by amplification of V1-V2 and V3-V4 regions from the bacterial 16S rRNA genes and will be qualified by q-PCR and amplicons will be sequenced by MiSeq (Illumina). Initial bioinformatic analysis and taxonomies will be carried out using the QIIME2 software. Immune activation will be assessed through JAK-STAT pathway activation by JAK STAT signaling pathway RT² profiler PCR Array (Qiagen) which profiles expression of 84 genes related to Jak and Stat-mediated signaling. UPA concentrations will be assessed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) at baseline and 3 months. Statistical classifiers (Neural network algorithm, Linear and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis, Support Vector Machine, Random forests, Shrinkage Methods, or Nearest Neighbors) incorporating microbiome, JAK STAT signaling pathway gene expression and clinical data, will be used to determine profiles associated with UPA clinical response and safety. Patients who will prematurely stop UPA (before 3 months) for adverse events or loss of follow-up will be considered as non-responders.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 60 |
Est. completion date | October 2024 |
Est. primary completion date | April 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Patients with RA fulfilling American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/ European league against rheumatism (EULAR) 2010 criteria - Patients with inadequate response to MTX - Patients receiving MTX as adjuvant therapy or will receive UPA as monotherapy Exclusion Criteria: - Patients with contraindication to upadacitinib - Patients previously treated with biological DMARDs or JAK inhibitors - Patients treated with = 10 mg/day of glucocorticoids - Use of IV glucocorticoids in the previous month - Previous use of biological DMARDs (TNF inhibitors, rituximab, abatacept, tocilizumab) or JAK inhibitors - Absence of informed consent - Pregnancy planned for the duration of the study, Women pregnant or breastfeeding women - Major protected by law or patient under guardianship |
Country | Name | City | State |
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France | CHU de Montpellier | Montpellier |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University Hospital, Montpellier |
France,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | EULAR response | Response will be defined following European league against rheumatism EULAR definition that is a decrease >0.6 points of Disease-Activity-Score 28-joints (DAS28-CRP) and a DAS28-CRP=5.1 at 3 months . Patients who will prematurely stop UPA (before 3 months) for adverse events, RA flair or loss of follow-up will be considered as non-responders. | 3 months | |
Secondary | EULAR good response | EULAR good-response at 3 and 6 months: DAS28-CRP=3.2 and deltaDAS28 (M0-M3)>1.2 | 3 and 6 months | |
Secondary | Achievement of low-disease activity: | DAS28-CRP at 6 months <3.2 and/or DAS28-ESR at 6 months <3.2 | 6 months | |
Secondary | Adverse events | Incidence, relatedness, and severity of treatment-emergent SUSARs, SAEs, ARs and AEs will be evaluated continuously. Patients with adverse events occurring between study visits will be asked to contact the study center for AE reporting. | during the 6 month follow-up | |
Secondary | Baseline gut-microbiota | microbiota will be described in terms of alpha and beta diversity, phylum, genus, OTU. | baseline, 3 and 6 months | |
Secondary | UPA concentrations | 0, 3 and 6 months | ||
Secondary | Baseline JAK-STAT signalling pathway gene expression profile | gene expression profile will include the level of expression of 84 genes | baseline | |
Secondary | Baseline clinical data | DAS28-CRP, body-mass index, age and gender | baseline |
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